# DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 DSpark — AGENT-SERVING profile (2× GB10, TP=2). # # Fork of deepseek-v4-flash-eugr tuned for interactive agent traffic, applying # the validated "agent-2048" profile from the SvangenStudios DGX-Spark # agent-serving benchmarks (v0.1.1, measured 2026-08-02 on this exact stack: # DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, DSpark k=5, 2× DGX Spark, TP=2, RoCE): # https://github.com/SvangenStudios/dgx-spark-agent-serving-benchmarks # configs/agent-2048.env / results/RESULTS.md §4 # # The benchmark's headline finding: --max-num-batched-tokens is a FAIRNESS # lever for agent workloads, not just a jitter lever. Against an ongoing # decode stream, a 262K-token prefill at 2048 delivers 2.9× the decode share # (5.0% vs 1.7%), 3.1× the decode tokens, 73% lower p95 output-chunk jitter, # and +67% KV-pool capacity — for 7.7% prefill throughput. The launcher's # whole purpose is agent serving (a model may be serving this very agent), so # 2048 is the more correct default here. # # Mental model (benchmark §3): an LLM server is three nearly-independent # engines — prefill (compute-bound, serializes), decode (bandwidth-bound, # scales to ~N=4), admission (scheduler-bound, BLOCKED during long prefill). # Chunk size governs how often decode gets a scheduling slot between prefill # chunks; smaller = more slots. It does NOT fix new-request admission (a # short request submitted during a large prefill waits until prefill # completes — 221× normal TTFT in both profiles). # # Knob changes vs deepseek-v4-flash-eugr (everything else identical — same # eugr image, same backends, same env): # --max-num-batched-tokens 8192 -> 2048 (the fairness lever) # --max-num-seqs 8 -> 6 (decode saturates ~N=4; 6 gives # headroom without inflating # worst-case latency) # --max-cudagraph-capture-size 64 -> 36 (= max_num_seqs * (k+1) = 6*6; # the k+1 multiple rule — the # benchmark notes k=5 rejects # MAX_NUM_SEQS=1 at boot) # --gpu-memory-utilization 0.85 -> 0.78 (benchmark: "0.80 boots but dies # under traffic"; GMU is a KV # lever, not a safety lever, when # weights dominate memory) # --max-model-len auto -> 1048576 (benchmark's 1M working capacity # — verified 12/12 needles at # 32K/128K/512K/900K) # # Trade-off: this profile costs ~7.7% prefill throughput vs the 8192 batch # profile. Use deepseek-v4-flash-eugr (8192) for exclusive long-context batch # jobs (512K–1M) with no concurrent agent traffic. See the batch-8192 profile # in the benchmark repo for the opposite extreme. # # 3× Sparks (TP=3): bump tensor_parallel_size + required_nodes to 3 (the eugr # image supports it per forum comment #28). k=5 unchanged (model-native). engine = "vllm" name = "DeepSeek V4 Flash DSpark (eugr b12x, agent 2048)" docker_image = "eugr/spark-vllm-b12x:sm121" model = "deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731" required_nodes = 2 tensor_parallel_size = 2 pipeline_parallel_size = 1 distributed_backend = "mp" shm_size = "32gb" docker_image_dir = "deepseek-v4-flash-eugr" entrypoint = ["vllm", "serve"] args = [ "--kv-cache-dtype", "fp8", "--block-size", "256", "--load-format", "instanttensor", # 1M working capacity (benchmark §2: 12/12 needles at 32K–900K). A 900K # prefill takes ~15 min and starves everything — batch capacity, not an # interactive mode. "--max-model-len", "1048576", # Decode saturates around N≈4 (benchmark §3); 6 gives headroom without # inflating worst-case latency. cudagraph capture = max_num_seqs*(k+1)=36. "--max-num-seqs", "6", # FAIRNESS LEVER (benchmark §4): 2048 gives 2.9× the decode share under a # concurrent prefill vs 8192, +67% KV pool, 73% lower jitter, for 7.7% # prefill throughput. Use 8192 only for exclusive long-context batch jobs. "--max-num-batched-tokens", "2048", # = max_num_seqs * (k+1) = 6 * 6 (the k+1 multiple rule). "--max-cudagraph-capture-size", "36", # Benchmark finding: "0.80 boots but dies under traffic" — 0.78 is the # safe ceiling. GMU is a KV lever, not a safety lever, when weights # dominate memory (~77.7 GiB of ~119.6 GiB node). "--gpu-memory-utilization", "0.78", "--served-model-name", "deepseek-v4-flash", # Engine backends — b12x across attention / MoE / linear "--attention-backend", "B12X_MLA_SPARSE", "--moe-backend", "b12x", "--linear-backend", "b12x", # Prefix caching — agent frameworks build prompts append-only, so reuse is # 95.7–98.4% per turn (benchmark §9: divergence at the last token of the # previous prompt; only ~270–660 tokens re-prefilled per agent step). "--enable-prefix-caching", # Compilation "--compilation-config", """ '{"cudagraph_mode":"FULL_AND_PIECEWISE","custom_ops":["all"]}'""", # DSpark speculative decoding — k=5 (DeepSeek-V4-Flash native # dspark_block_size). draft_sample_method per eugr recipe; draft attention # backend B12X_MLA_SPARSE. The baked mod makes the embedded draft load via # lazy safetensors while the target stays on InstantTensor. "--speculative-config", """ '{"method":"dspark","num_speculative_tokens":5,"draft_sample_method":"probabilistic","attention_backend":"B12X_MLA_SPARSE"}'""", # Tokenizer / reasoning — reasoning-config pins the parser + empty # reasoning markers (deepseek_v4 tokenizer mode emits them itself). "--tokenizer-mode", "deepseek_v4", "--tool-call-parser", "deepseek_v4", "--reasoning-parser", "deepseek_v4", "--reasoning-config", """ '{"reasoning_parser":"deepseek_v4","reasoning_start_str":"","reasoning_end_str":""}'""", "--enable-auto-tool-choice", "--generation-config", "vllm", "--default-chat-template-kwargs.thinking=true", "--default-chat-template-kwargs.reasoning_effort=high", "--disable-custom-all-reduce", "--trust-remote-code", ] # Persistent vLLM compile cache (speeds up restarts). Mounted at vLLM's # default cache root for root (/root/.cache/vllm); the HF cache is already # mounted at /root/.cache/huggingface by the launcher. Shares the eugr # recipe's cache dir (same image/backends — compile artifacts are reusable). [[extra_mounts]] host = "~/.cache/vllm-ds4-eugr" container = "/root/.cache/vllm" [env] # --- b12x + compile (from eugr's recipe env, verbatim) --- CUTE_DSL_ARCH = "sm_121a" VLLM_USE_AOT_COMPILE = "1" VLLM_USE_BREAKABLE_CUDAGRAPH = "0" VLLM_USE_MEGA_AOT_ARTIFACT = "-1" VLLM_MEMORY_PROFILE_INCLUDE_ATTN = "1" VLLM_USE_FLASHINFER_SAMPLER = "1" VLLM_USE_B12X_WO_PROJECTION = "1" VLLM_USE_B12X_MHC = "1" VLLM_USE_B12X_FP8_GEMM = "1" VLLM_USE_B12X_MOE = "1" VLLM_USE_B12X_SPARSE_INDEXER = "1" VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER = "1" B12X_MLA_SM120_UNIFIED = "1" B12X_MOE_FORCE_A8 = "1" # --- arch / memory / GPU isolation (operational on the sm121 cluster) --- TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST = "12.1a" PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF = "expandable_segments:True" OMP_NUM_THREADS = "4" CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES = "0" CUDA_DEVICE_ORDER = "PCI_BUS_ID" CUDA_CACHE_MAXSIZE = "4294967296" # --- offline --- HF_HUB_OFFLINE = "1" # --- NCCL overrides (GB10 single-NIC tuning; image-agnostic — mirrors # recipes/deepseek-v4-flash. The launcher still injects IB/HCA/socket # vars from the cluster config; these are recipe-level extras.) --- NCCL_P2P_LEVEL = "SYS" NCCL_CUMEM_ENABLE = "0" NCCL_IB_TIMEOUT = "24" NCCL_IB_QPS_PER_CONNECTION = "8" NCCL_BUFFERSIZE = "16777216" NCCL_SOCKET_FAMILY = "inet" # PCIe allreduce not needed on GB10 single-NIC VLLM_ENABLE_PCIE_ALLREDUCE = "0" VLLM_PCIE_ALLREDUCE_BACKEND = "cpp"